https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/2233/
Submission Deadline: 01-Dec-2026

Last-minute call for abstracts: Typology in historical phonology (Uppsala, 24–26 August 2026)

Dear colleagues,

We (myself, Stephen Nichols, Pavel Iosad, and László Károly) will be running a friendly and informal workshop on the theme of ‘typology in historical phonology’ at Uppsala next month. A small number of slots remain for contributed papers — if you have something that would fit the remit below, please do get in touch with me by July 19 with a < 500-word abstract, and I’ll get back to you within a few days thereafter! (Apologies for the rather short notice.)

The workshop will run from 24–26 August, with full-length days on the 24th and the 25th. Thanks to generous support from the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, we should be able to cover travel and accommodation costs for contributions we accept, within reasonable limits.

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Workshop description:

It is near-universally known that certain contrasts, alternations, and sound changes recur across languages, while others are vanishingly rare or altogether unattested; yet answers as to why are not always forthcoming. Explaining these asymmetries falls awkwardly across the boundaries of research communities whose efforts have not traditionally been well coordinated: phoneticians, theoretical phonologists, typologists, philologists, and historical linguists all have something essential to contribute, but the study of cross-linguistic phonological distributions has not consolidated into a coherent enterprise. Progress here bears on an unresolved tension in phonological theory: to what extent is phonological typology the product of synchronic, system-internal pressures, and to what extent is it the accumulated residue of diachronic processes? This workshop aims to bring into dialogue researchers who work on these deeply related questions but publish in largely separate literatures, with the goal of identifying the most productive directions for future work at the intersection of these fields.

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Do get in touch with any questions!

All very best wishes,
Deepthi

Journal of Historical Linguistics, Volume 16, Issue 1

1. Visual perception verbs in Old Anatolian Turkish
Zeynep Erk Emeksiz and Julian Rentzsch.
Volume 16, Issue 1, pages 1 - 25, 2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.00017.erk

2. Variant patterns of sibilant debuccalization in Camuno
Juliette Blevins and Michela Cresci.
Volume 16, Issue 1, pages 26 - 75, 2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.00016.ble

3. Joint innovation
Joan Bybee and Rena Torres Cacoullos.
Volume 16, Issue 1, pages 76 - 111, 2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.24028.byb

4. Interaction of scope and cliticization domain
Andrei Sideltsev.
Volume 16, Issue 1, pages 112 - 186, 2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.24008.sid

Diachronica. Online First Article

1. The Unterland basis of Hasidic Yiddish
Chaya R. Nove.
2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.24072.nov

2. Integrating linguistic and geographic methods in toponymic analysis
Nicholas Q. Emlen and Sietze Norder.
2026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.25043.eml

Зайцев, Л. Ступенчатая реконструкция в морфонологии и уральская градация согласных.
https://starlingdb.org/confer/Zaitsev-2026.pdf

⚡️предварительная программа Interspeech!

https://interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/programme/program

Вышел!
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/indo/131/1/html

https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/2321/
Call Deadline: 24-Aug-2026

Kapović, M. (2026). On the reconstruction of the Common Slavic prosodic system. Filologija, (86), 99–153. https://doi.org/10.21857/90836cvgzy

The Fifth AMC Symposium
Submission deadline: July 31st

Dear all,
This is just a quick reminder that the Fifth AMC Symposium will take place between the 7th and the 9th December 2026 at The University of Edinburgh. The call for papers is open until July 31st, so you have two weeks to submit your abstracts if you would like to present.

The theme of the symposium will be: Types of Evidence in Historical Linguistics

Our Invited Speakers are:

Chundra Cathcart (Zurich)

Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki)

Sara Pacchiarotti (Ghent)

Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow)

David Stifter (Maynooth)

Rob Truswell (Edinburgh)


Further details can be found on the Symposium Website: https://www.amc.lel.ed.ac.uk/amc-symposium/fifth-amc-symposium/



The EasyAbs abstract submission page for the symposium is here.


While we particularly encourage abstracts for regular talks and posters that engage with the key symposium theme, we also welcome abstracts on any topic in historical linguistics, including all language specialisms and sub-disciplines.



Please direct any enquiries to: amc-sympo@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk.



We hope to see lots of you in December!


The Organisers

Nikolas Gisborne
Lisa Gotthard
Patrick Honeybone
Pavel Iosad
Bettelou Los
Warren Maguire
Benjamin Molineaux
Graeme Trousdale

Zariquiey, R., Blum, F., & Valenzuela, P. (2026). The forgotten mid vowels: Reconstructing the history of the Proto-Pano vowel system. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.25015.zar

https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/2339/
Submission Deadline: 20-Sep-2026

Khanina, O., & Gusev, V. (2026). Shared ancestry and language contact in Northern Samoyedic: Phonological and morphological innovations. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.24067.kha

Outstanding paper on ACL 2026

https://github.com/HITsz-TMG/Lychee-FD

Hierarchical Acoustic-Semantic Modeling: Modality
Separation and Semantic Coherence for Full-Duplex SLM

https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/2344/
Date: 01-Aug-2027 - 05-Aug-2027

Gutiérrez, A., & Uchihara, H. (2026). A Grammar of Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec. In A Grammar of Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec. De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111320939